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They actually tease you by pretending to show results on their website [0] but when you click on any of the flights it just takes you to their homepage.

[0] https://www.hopper.com/deals/best/from/city-toronto-YTO/to/c...

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I'm impressed you even found that. AFAIK there's no link to it anywhere from hopper.com. It was a little SEO project that one of the engineers that's been here a while worked on using our internal prediction APIs. Something like it existed in the app at one point, but the engagement we saw with it was pretty miniscule.

Appreciate the kind response. Those pages are linked right on the homepage, I clicked on the Paris[0] one.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/7ey6spH.png

Oh wow, goes to show you what I know... I assume when we were working with the company we contracted out to build that fancy website they asked if we had anything to link to for flight deals that we were just like "this engineer had a little pet project you could link to". The funny thing is a new hire just asked why we didn't have anything in the app for "best deals in general from my city" and I responded by linking to that project.

It used to exist as its own separate app called "Get The Flight Out" but for some reason we removed it from the app store. We also had a feature devoted to something similar for "flexible watching" but it never got much engagement and it didn't warrant the infrastructure cost it required to keep up.

yeah... i find that a bit disgusting.

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